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B92
April 19, 2018
"The president says - one can't expose to ridicule any sovereign country's flag. Well, one can, because aggression against the Republic of Serb Krajina was carried out under that flag. 200,000 Serbs were expelled (from Croatia), while several thousand civilians were killed," the leader of the Radicals said.
Eurasia Review
April 11, 2018
Political war may be combined with violence, economic pressure, subversion, and diplomacy, but its chief aspect is the use of words, images, and ideas. -– Paul A. Smith, Jr., “On Political War”. I felt as if imprisoned by ISIS terrorists, not arrested[1] . . . They sang on the ride to Priština,shouting Allahu Akbar.
Foreign Policy Research Institute
April 9, 2018
Croatia subsumed the fourth—the Republic of Serbian Krajina [Republika Srpska Krajina]—under the 1995 Erdut Agreement, something acknowledged by all but the most stubborn revanchists. This essay's point of departure is the recent detention and expulsion by Kosovo internal security forces of aÃâà...
Balkan Insight
March 26, 2018
The state's attorney office asked its Serbian counterpart for the addresses of witnesses for the trial of five former paramilitaries from the 1990s Croatian Serb unrecognised statelet, the Republic of Serbian Krajina. Indicted in their absence in March 2016, the men - Dusan Zarkovic, Bogdan Jednak, GeorgeÃâà...
Balkan Insight
March 6, 2018
The operation, known as Pauk (Spider), was conducted in collaboration between the Bosnian Serb Army, the Serbian SDB and the armed forces of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina. Theunens cited a Bosnian Serb Army document which quoted Stanisic's words that “managing the combat operations” was theÃâà...
Eurasia Daily
March 1, 2018
The Republic of Serbian Krajina was weak and it was the fault of the local authorities and Serbia that it was ceded to Croatia. It failed to become a united state: its three parts – Knin Krajina, Western Slavonia and Eastern Slavonia were just semi-independent autonomies manipulated by Belgrade. EasternÃâà...
Balkan Insight
February 1, 2018
Mutic, who was a soldier of the unrecognised Serb-led Republic of Serbian Krajina statelet in the 1990s, was sent to Croatia on Wednesday. The US had already sentenced Mutic to two years in prison in January 2016 for lying during his visa approval process in 1999. Although he stated while obtaining his visa that he hadÃâà...
Balkan Insight
January 29, 2018
The Humanitarian Law Centre said on Monday that it has filed a complaint accusing several unnamed members of the police force of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina wartime statelet of raping the six Roma women in the Croatian town of Beli Manastir in 1993. According to the complaint, theÃâà...
Balkan Insight
January 23, 2018
Martic, who later became the president of the unrecognised Republic of Serbian Krajina wartime statelet, was sentenced by the Hague Tribunal in 2008 to 35 years in prison for the persecution of Croats from Croatia's Knin region. RFJ-144 also testified that paramilitary forces led by Zeljko Raznatovic, aliasÃâà...
Balkan Insight
December 1, 2017
Simatovic's defence tried to prove this was false and that the two paramilitary units acted as parts of the Bosnian Serb Army and of the armed forces of the unrecognised Republic of Serbian Krajina in Croatia. Stoparic, a former Scorpions fighter, replied that this was “formally true”, but that in reality both units answered onlyÃâà...
Balkan Insight
November 9, 2017
Edwards said that witness Goran Stoparic had “made it up” that the Scorpions' commander, Slobodan Medic, alias Boca, and Milan Milanovic, alias Mrgud, the assistant defence minister of the Croatian Serb wartime statelet the Republic of Serbian Krajina “went to Belgrade and submitted reports to Jovica Stanisic”. “I am notÃâà...
Balkan Insight
November 8, 2017
Witness Goran Stoparic told Stanisic and Simatovic's trial at the Mechanism for International Tribunals in The Hague on Tuesday that the Scorpions were formally part of the armed forces of the rebel Republic of Serbian Krajina statelet in Croatia “but the unit was sponsored by the Serbian SDB [State Security Service]”.
Balkan Insight
October 24, 2017
Siftar was testifying in the trial in absentia of five former paramilitaries from the 1990s Croatian Serb unrecognised statelet, the Republic of Serbian Krajina - Dusan Zarkovic, 58, Bogdan Jednak, 49, George Nashid Kamal, 45, Miroslav Malobabic, 42 and Dejan Sladovic, 42. They are accused of committingÃâà...
Balkan Insight
June 22, 2017
Prosecution witness Radoslav Maksic, a former Yugoslav People's Army colonel, said he agreed that the JNA was responsible for the crimes committed, but only because the Republic of Serbian Krajina police who committed them were officially under the JNA's command during the fighting in the area inÃâà...
Total Croatia News
December 31, 1999
... for war crimes against the Serbian population during the operation in the same way that the head of the so-called Republic of Serbian Krajina Mile Martić was responsible for war crimes committed against Croats. “I do not want to see him in Croatia ever again,” allegedly said President Tuđman at the time.
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